Word: rare
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...used bookstores are not the only places in the Square for book lovers to browse for more esoteric tomes. If the general reading bookstores don't have that rare book you've been dying to read and you can't find it used, one of the Square's numerous specialty bookstores might be the place. Grolier Book Shop (6 Plympton St.) is a poet hang-out with its selection of almost 10,000 poetry books and if they don't have the collection you're looking for, they'll order it. If you prefer your poetry in the flesh, contemporary...
Probably one of the most popular spots in the area lies just off the Square. The Picadilly Filly (123 Mt. Auburn St.) is your basic, unpretentious bar--rare for Harvard. This is the place for college kids to drink cheap beer, play quarters, and ogle the opposite sex. The Filly starts getting crowded around 10:30 p.m.; the bouncer goes on duty at 10. Weekends this is a hot spot and the temperature cools down only slightly during the week...
...choose from an assortment of up to 200 beers. This was one of the first places to introduce the now famous--at least around here--Samuel Adams lager, named after the great brewer/patriot. The Wursthaus also serves food and if you're lucky you'll catch a rare sighting of President Derek C. Bok drinking coffee early in the morning...
Supreme as Boeing's reputation is, it is also fragile. On those very rare occasions when a Boeing jet crashes, a shudder not only of sympathy but of concern goes through Seattle. When a Japan Air Lines 747 went down last year, killing 520, the company sent a twelve-member team of investigators to the scene. Boeing later admitted that repair work it had once done on the plane's tail area had been faulty...
...nearly 2,000 McDonald's (pace Dwight). Stopping for a Big Mac in Singapore, says a young customer, is "like walking into a bit of America." Last October in Kenya's rugged Rift Valley at the foot of a remote volcano, nomadic Maasai gathered for a rare tribal ceremony. Young warriors' heads were shaved. An ox was ritually slaughtered. And at the edge of the encampment, a concessionaire sold Coke by the bottle...